Col. John LEWIS
Noted events in his life were: • Residence: Abingdon Parrish, 1694, Gloucester County, VA. • Note: wife/children. 17 CHARLES(5) LEWIS, brother of Fielding(5) Lewis, and son of Col. John(4) Lewis and Frances Fielding, resided in Caroline county, where he married Lucy Taliaferro, daughter of John Taliaferro and Mary Catlett*, of Snow Creek, Spotsylvania county, and had issue, 54 John(6) Taliaferro Lewis, 55 Charles Augustine, and 56 Mary Warner Lewis, who married Philip Lightfoot, of Cedar Creek, Caroline county (QUARTERLY, III., p. 107-109). Col. Charles Lewis kept a journal detailing very minutely all the marches and movements of a company of men, commencing October 10, 1755. The detachment was a part of the command of Andrew Lewis. This Col. Charles(5) Lewis died _______________________________________________________________________ *This will of Mary Taliaferro, dated in Spotsylvania January, 1771, names daughter Mary Jones, wife of Joseph Jones, "her present husband," and daughter Lucy Lewis, grandchildren John Taliaferro Lewis, Charles Augustine Lewis, and Mary Warner Lewis. Makes sons Charles Lewis and Joseph Jones exors. Page 52. about 1770 at Port Royal, Caroline county, Va. His journal was in the possession of his grandson, Warner Lewis, of Miller's Tavern, in Essex county, in 1860. • See also. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd45.htm John married Frances FIELDING, daughter of Henry FIELDING and Unknown, in 1718. (Frances FIELDING was born betw 1700 - 1704 in VA and died on 27 Oct 1731.) |